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CHRISTMAS DISCOVERY COFFEE

Our Christmas Discovery Coffee is always a popular one and this year we're excited to release our festive offering with a twist. Steeped in heritag...

Wild Swimming: The Best Christmas Party Ever

Here at Chimney Fire Coffee, we’re pretty pumped to spend our days roasting great coffee with the beautiful Surrey Hills as our backdrop. With all ...

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Christmas Last Orders and Opening Times

Thank you so much to all our customers for making 2021 a year to remember! We are all looking forward to a little break over the Christmas period, ...

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NOVEMBER DISCOVERY COFFEE

Originally intended to be our Christmas release, we had to bring this coffee forward by a month due to logistical delays. We loved this coffee due ...

Why Varietals are Important with Head Roaster Elizabeth Furth

During his visit to El Salvador in early 2019, Chimney Fire Coffee founder Dan was introduced to Tomas Trigueros, proprietor of the Don Tomas Estat...

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OCTOBER DISCOVERY COFFEE

The cream tea of coffees. This coffee quite literally blew us away - both as a morning flat white - think of that strawberry jam & clotted crea...

Recycle Reuse Reward

Over the last two years we’ve been rigorously researching and testing packaging alternatives - and in the summer of 2021, we were incredibly excite...

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SEPTEMBER DISCOVERY

Overcoming a variety of barriers, including geographic isolation, rugged terrain, and a traditionally lower status in society, the women of the Caf...

Esnayder Cuartas of Finca Las Cruces and Sabor Coffee

THE FARMER IN OUR COURTYARD: ESNAYDER CUARTAS INTERVIEW

How many British roasteries are lucky enough to say they receive regular visits from an actual coffee farmer? We sat down with Colombian coffee pro...

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AUGUST DISCOVERY

A high quality, fully traceable coffee from the Mio farm in Brazil.

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JULY DISCOVERY

A high quality filter roast from Panama - an origin with a reputation that far exceeds it's scale of production.

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JUNE DISCOVERY

We roasted this coffee for espresso and Cephas, our roaster / barista has crafted ‘espresso on the rocks’ for early summer. Click here for the recipe!

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MAY DISCOVERY

Peachy, Mary's Fruit Cake, Toffee - plenty of fruit and sweetness, with a profile comparable to lots of team fruit cake tastings over the past year...

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APRIL DISCOVERY

We picked this coffee from PNG due to it’s interesting flavour profile, and one that’s perfectly suited for the Spring sun!

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MARCH DISCOVERY

We decided to do things a little differently this month. The March Discovery Coffee was a delicious Black Honey process from Myanmar. This month Ch...

COFFEE AND ELITE SPORT - WHEN SAM MET TISH

Tish Jones is a Team GB marathon runner with a personal best of 2hrs 31mins, set at the 2019 Virgin London Marathon. She is supported by Adidas and...

GENDER EQUALITY IN COFFEE FARMING

On average it takes around 100 beans to make an espresso - that’s about 50 cherry picks to make one cup of coffee! But who picked the cherries? W...

ONE YEAR OF RE-CYCLE

We're proud to say we've been working with Re-Cycle for just over a year now, with 25p from every 250g bag and £1 from every 1kg bag of all Discov...

TRACEABILITY AND OUR AUGUST DISCOVERY COFFEE

When you buy coffee from a speciality roaster you should know where it comes from. This is so important because it creates a link between the coff...

Brew Guides + Recipes

ICED COFFEE V COLD BREW

When you think of iced coffee, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For many it would be a can of something cold and sickly sweet, picked up...

COURTYARD COFFEE FESTIVAL

CHIMNEY FIRE IS TURNING 4 🥳To celebrate we’re having a party, and everyone is invited! Join us at our roastery in the beautiful Surrey Hills on S...

CLASSIC OR SIGNATURE - OUR SINGLE ORIGIN HOUSE ESPRESSOS

The development of our two house espressos have been at the core of everything we do here at Chimney Fire. After lots of customer feedback and num...

Plant A Tree On Earth Day

Thanks to everyone who planted a tree for Earth Day. A TREE FOR EVERY ORDER ON EARTH DAY Thursday 22nd April is Earth Day. For every order recei...

How To Keep Your Coffee Fresher For Longer

Correct coffee storage is imperative in preserving the freshness of your whole bean or ground coffee. To keep ground or whole bean coffee fresh, co...

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An Easter Coffee Recipe For Your Espresso Machine or Stovetop

We teamed up with the Clever Bean Chocolate team in Surrey to create a Peruvian Easter treat. This is well worth a try if you like a mocha or salt...

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FEBRUARY DISCOVERY

This was our first biodynamic coffee with pesticides, herbicides and other toxic ingredients not being used at all. Click for more info or read our...

Honey Processed Coffee

Most of you will be familiar with a natural or washed coffee but what does a honey process mean? In this blog we focus on this complex process and ...